Comparison of Twitter, Facebook and MySpace are in news for some time in a major way. The discussion is led by research done by AC Nielson and Compete.com. They have reported loss of Twitter charm on the vintage analysis growth trend against Facebook and MySpace. These two Research Companies are very credible sources, and [...]
Source: Compete Blog
Earlier this week, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerburg made Forbes list of the World’s Richest Men. Facebook certainly had more ups than downs in 2007, but can the site continue its rapid growth into 2008? Where’s MySpace and what else is going in the social web? It appears that the real movers in [...]
Facebook, and social networks in particular, are a medium to “Simply be you, online!”. It is essentially different from everything that is on the web because it brings a flow of real people with real identities and real interaction with their friends, families, fans, followers and future contacts.
When the web burst into the scenes with Netscape in 95, there was a famous [...]
Market Share of U.S. Internet Visits to Top 10 Social Networking Websites
Rank
Name
Domain
Dec-07
Dec-06
YoY % Change
1
MySpace
www.myspace.com
72.32%
78.89%
-8%
2
Facebook
www.facebook.com
16.03%
10.59%
51%
3
Bebo
www.bebo.com
1.09%
0.99%
10%
4
BlackPlanet.com
www.blackplanet.com
1.04%
0.96%
8%
5
Club Penguin
www.clubpenguin.com
0.80%
0.54%
48%
6
Gaiaonline.com
www.gaiaonline.com
0.76%
0.58%
31%
7
myYearbook
www.myyearbook.com
0.73%
0.14%
407%
8
hi5
www.hi5.com
0.63%
0.64%
-1%
9
Classmates
www.classmates.com
0.55%
0.58%
-7%
10
Yahoo! 360
360.yahoo.com
0.54%
0.91%
-40%
Note – data is based on a custom category of 53 of the leading social networking websites ranked by market share of U.S. visits, which is the percentage of online traffic to the domain or category, from the Hitwise sample [...]
Market Share of U.S. Internet Visits to Top 10 Social Networking Websites
Rank
Name
Domain
Dec-07
Dec-06
YoY % Change
1
MySpace
www.myspace.com
72.32%
78.89%
-8%
2
Facebook
www.facebook.com
16.03%
10.59%
51%
3
Bebo
www.bebo.com
1.09%
0.99%
10%
4
BlackPlanet.com
www.blackplanet.com
1.04%
0.96%
8%
5
Club Penguin
www.clubpenguin.com
0.80%
0.54%
48%
6
Gaiaonline.com
www.gaiaonline.com
0.76%
0.58%
31%
7
myYearbook
www.myyearbook.com
0.73%
0.14%
407%
8
hi5
www.hi5.com
0.63%
0.64%
-1%
9
Classmates
www.classmates.com
0.55%
0.58%
-7%
10
Yahoo! 360
360.yahoo.com
0.54%
0.91%
-40%
Note – data is based on a custom category of 53 of the leading social networking websites ranked by market share of U.S. visits, which is the percentage of online traffic to the domain or category, from the Hitwise [...]
On 12.14.07, In Market Share, by Antonio Altamirano
The social media market is hot! The valuation for Facebook is through the roof at $15 billion and due to the magnificent works of upside potential in a soon-to-be public or acquired company (and a mishap by Microsoft?) Facebook has managed to “pull a Google”- stealing top coders and employees from other companies in the [...]
On 12.13.07, In Market Share, by Antonio Altamirano
The social media market is hot! The valuation for Facebook is through the roof at $15 billion and due to the magnificent works of upside potential in a soon-to-be public or acquired company (and a mishap by Microsoft?) Facebook has managed to “pull a Google”- stealing top coders and employees from other companies in [...]
The market share of visits to the custom category of the top 20 social networking sites increased by 11.5% from January 2007 to February 2007. Year-over-year (February 2006 – February 2007) category traffic was up 87%.
Traffic to MySpace was up 10.2% from January to February 2007 and 107.3% year over year.
Buzznet and IMEEM showed the [...]
The market share of visits to the custom category of the top 20 social networking sites increased by 11.5% from January 2007 to February 2007. Year-over-year (February 2006 – February 2007) category traffic was up 87%.
Traffic to MySpace was up 10.2% from January to February 2007 and 107.3% year over year.
Buzznet and IMEEM showed [...]
